ADVENTURES THE
OF 27 27 SCIENCE DETECTIVES & PROMPTENGINEERS
AGIANTCOMICBOOK
ADVENTURES THE OF 27 27 SCIENCE DETECTIVES
& PROMPTENGINEERS
AGIANTCOMICBOOK
In collaboration with 2nd graders
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About This Book
For four weeks, The GIANT Room joined students and teachers to learn about AI literacy, storytelling, and science. As part of the school’s Plant and Animal Relationships unit, we investigated a real-world mystery: why did no new chalta trees grow in the Bengal Tiger Reserve from 1995 to 2015? What do chalta trees need to grow? And what is the connection between chalta fruit, elephants, and poop?
During the unit, students dove deep into how plants depend on animals in their habitats, assuming the role of plant scientists reporting to the lead scientist at the Bengal Tiger Reserve. Motivated to figure out the cause of this real-world mystery, students investigated the problem, and then pursued a chain of reasoning that took them from considering how plants get what they need to grow to understanding how seeds depend on animals for dispersal. Students use their newfound understanding to try to get to the bottom of the mystery!
While working to solve it with The GIANT Room team, students created their own collectible animal trading cards using generative AI, brainstormed with text-based AI to come up with theories on how their animal was involved in the mystery, drew comics of these theories, and even worked together to come up with what their area of the forest looked like using block-based prompt engineering.
We want to thank the school and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center for their partnership, and to the Robin Hood Foundation for funding the program and making this publication possible.
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How This Book Is Made
Co-designed and co-written by 27 students, AI, and a multidisciplinary team of artists, educators, and writers at The GIANT Room, The Adventures of 27 Science Detectives and PromptEngineers showcases students’ science, storytelling, and AI literacy achievements and invites their friends and family to celebrate, reflect, and learn about their creations!
Students engineered the animal avatars you see throughout the book by building a 3D animal model and completing a GIANT Mission Sheet that asked them to choose an animal that lives in the Bengal Tiger Reserve, give it a name, and share traits about it. Designers from The GIANT Room then used photos of students’ 3D animal models and written descriptions to generate their avatars with AI tools. You’ll find the exact AI prompts we used in the section, “Meet the Animals.”
Teachers also joined in and created their own AI avatars. These avatars act as the curious leaders of the science detectives and guide us closer and closer to solving the mystery!
In our last workshop together, students used block-based prompt engineering to generate what they envisioned their forest to look like. In groups, they added nouns, adjectives, qualifiers, quantifiers, connectors and more to build a text prompt, telling AI exactly what they wanted it to generate. These images were used as the background settings for students’ comics, where students wrote key mystery facts said by their animal avatars.
Why AI? The GIANT Room’s mission is to elevate kids’ voices and provide them with opportunities to publish and share with friends and family. AI is a powerful tool they can use in their creative journey, and along the way they can gain AI and media literacy skills that are incredibly valuable for their future. The GIANT Room introduces students to these tools in a responsible way, always with a human in the loop.
Acerca de este libro
Durante cuatro semanas, The GIANT Room visitó la escuela para aprenderjuntoconsusalumnosymaestrossobrelaalfabetizaciónde Inteligencia Artificial, la Narración de Historias y la Ciencia. Utilizando el currículum de clase enfocado en La Relación entre Plantas y Animales, se investigó un misterio de la vida real: ¿Por qué no crecieron nuevos árboles de chalta en la Reserva del Tigre de Bengaladesde1995hasta2015?¿Quénecesitaelárbolchaltapara crecer? ¿Cual es la conexión entre la fruta del árbol chalta, los elefantes,ysusexcrementos?
En las sesiones, los estudiantes investigaron sobre cómo las plantas dependen de los hábitats de los animales para sobrevivir. Los estudiantes asumieron el rol de científicos botánicos para poder apoyar al científico principal de la Reserva del Tigre Bengala. Motivados por descubrir el misterio, los estudiantes investigaron el problema y aprendieron más sobre la relación entre plantas y animales; desde como las plantas obtienen lo que necesitan para crecer, hasta como las semillas dependen de animales para su dispersión. ¡Los estudiantes utilizan lo que aprendieron para poder intentarresolverelmisterio!
Mientraslosestudiantesaprendíansobreelmisterio,elequipodeThe GIANT Room les ayudó a crear sus propias tarjetas de colección utilizando Inteligencia Artificial (IA) generativa. Así mismo, usaron texto para generar e intercambiar ideas con IA, lo cual los ayudó a crear teorías sobre cómo los animales están involucrados en el misterio. Después, diseñaron una novela gráfica enfocándose en una de esas teorías. Terminaron la última sesión, trabajando en equipo y utilizando “prompt engineering” para generar una imagen de un bosquedondehayárboleschalta.
Queremos agradecer a la escuela y a Joan Ganz Cooney Center por su colaboración, y a Robin Hood Foundation por financiar el programayhacerposibleestapublicación.
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Cómo Se Hizo Este Libro
Este libro fue co-diseñado y co-escrito por 27 estudiantes, Inteligencia Artificial, y un equipo multidisciplinario de artistas, educadores, y escritores de The GIANT Room. Este libro “The Adventures of 27 Science Detectives and Prompt Engineers” muestra el increíble trabajo científico, de narración de historias, y de alfabetización de IA que hicieron los estudiantes. ¡Al mismo tiempo, invitando a sus amigos y familiaresacelebrar,reflexionaryaprendersobresucreación!
Los estudiantes avatares de animales que ves en el libro, fueron diseñados por los estudiantes en el transcurso de las sesiones. Empezaron contestando una “Mission Sheet” en donde les pedía que escogieran un animal que vive en la Reserva del Tigre Bengala, darle un nombre y compartir características sobre él. Después utilizaron materiales de manualidades para crear modelos 3D del animal que escogieron. El equipo de The GIANT Room utilizo fotos de los modelos de animales y las características escritas en su “Mission Sheet” para generar su avatares usando Inteligencia Artificial. Podrás encontrarenlasección“MeettheAnimals”ladescripciónexactaque dio cada estudiante de su animal. Las maestras del salón también participaron y crearon sus propios avatares usando IA. Sus avatares toman el rol de líderes científicos dentro del libro y nos guían en el procesoderesolverelmisterio.
Durante la última sesión, los estudiantes utilizaron “block-based prompt engineering” para generar la imagen de su bosque. En sus equipos, ellos añadieron sustantivos, adjetivos, cualitativos, cuantitativos, conectores y más para crear su “prompt” escrito, para la herramienta de Inteligencia Artificial. Las imágenes generadas se usaron como fondo de su novela gráfica, en donde comparten datos clavesdelmisterio.
¿Por qué IA? La misión de The GIANT Room es elevar la voz de los niños y proporcionarles la oportunidad de publicar y compartir sus creaciones con amigos y familiares. La IA es una herramienta poderosa que pueden usar en su viaje creativo, y a lo largo del proceso, pueden adquirir habilidades de alfabetización en IA y medios que son increíblemente valiosas para su futuro. The GIANT Room introduce a los estudiantes a usar herramientas de manera responsable,siempreconunhumanopresente.
you’reThankgoodnesshere!Wehavea SERIOUSmysteryonour hands,andweneed yourhelptosolveit!
It all started on the aBengalTigerReserve, placewherescientists studyanimals andplants.
TheBengalTigerReserve islocatedinabroadleaf forestinIndia.
For20years,nonew growingchaltatreeswereonthereserve.
Scientistsaretryingto happeningunderstandwhythisis andwhocould bebehindthismystery...
Scientists think it may have to do with the animals that live in the forest --
Wait, which animals live there?
Greatquestion!Let’s Maybemeetthemall!theycangiveussomeclues...
MEET THE MEET THE A ANNIIMMAALLS S
COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS
TEACHER
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
an elephant who loves music and is a vegetarian, wearing a green baseball hat. 3D illustration
TEACHER
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a tiger wearing a gold crown, holding a globe while sitting on a stack of books. 2D illustration
AITANA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a small red panda with round ears and 4 short, wide legs. furry soft texture. forest background. 3D illustration, kawaii style
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Bandy the Red Panda
ARIANNA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a small red panda with large round, white ears, sitting. portrait view. furry soft texture. forest background. 3D illustration, kawaii style
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Lizzy the Red Panda
AYLEN VALENTINA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a small red panda with round, white ears,. portrait view. furry soft texture. forest background. 3D illustration, kawaii style
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Sunny the Red Panda
DYLAN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
tiger standing in the forest
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Jojo the Tiger
EILEEN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
red panda with black and red stripes on the beach.
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Camilio the Red Panda
ELIETH DANIELA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a small bird with pink and purple feathers
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Rose the Bird
EMILY
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
An elephant standing next to a fig tree. 3D illustration, kawaii style
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Asian Elephant
ERISON
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
adult tiger standing in the forest
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Rod the Tiger
IKER
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a buffalo like animal, gaur, with big horns on the left and a big elephant with a long trunk on the right in a forest with tall tree
CHOSEN ANIMAL:
Flufy the Gaur and Bob the Elephant
JAYDEN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a big rainbow colored tiger sitting on the plants
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Adrian the Tiger
JESSLYN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
A very big asian elephant in an Indian forest
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Jess the Asian Elephant
JOAO
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
A forest with very tall trees and a waterfall with a small tiger walking
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Tiger
JOSHUA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
A red panda with a bushy tail eating green elephant apples or chalta fruits with a forest background
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Dylan the Red Panda
JULIAN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
excited bird flies over the beach
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Max the Crow
KEILYN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
An elephant in a forest with red silk trees in the background
CHOSEN ANIMAL: An Elephant
LEIA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a baby bird with colorful feathers sitting in red silk tree
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Missela the Baby Bird
MANUEL
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a colorful alligator, with sharp teeth
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Max the Alligator
SOL
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a green bunny eating a carrot in the forest
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Bunny Girl the Rabbit
ADRIAN
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
A baby cub tiger. 2D comic style, kawaii style, wearing an orange hat
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Jayden the Tiger
MAYA
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a big blue elephant eating fruit, with a cute purple and pink bird next to it
CHOSEN ANIMAL: EAPQ the Elephant
MELANIE
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a happy tiger with a rose, wearing a red hat
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Tigers
MEREDITH
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a grey happy baby elephant
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Elephant
NICOLAS
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a crocodile fighting an alligator in a river. hyper realistic photo
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Chomp the Crocodile
NICOLE
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
green bunny with big ears and a cute face in the forest
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Luna the Bunny
ROGER
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
A dark gray elephant with a chalta tree
CHOSEN ANIMAL: En the Elephant
GAEL
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
Ahappyfluffytiger
CHOSEN ANIMAL: Tiger
AI AVATAR PROMPT:
a black spider monkey with black scary eyes and red hand tattoo on its forehead, hanging from a red silk tree, cinematic
CHOSEN ANIMAL:
Spider Monkey
ENGINEERED PROMPT
A real creepy delicious forest with sparkly tall trees and beautiful grass and flowers and animals dancing. A blue sky and clouds and beautiful river.
Pop-surrealism style
INITIAL PROMPT ATTEMPT
mysterious and scary land with a dark good and beautiful savannah with sweet trees and people and fences
ENGINEERED PROMPT
mysterious and scary land with a dark good and beautiful savannah with sweet trees, plants and and people and fences and a sun, it's windy, it is and it is , and 1000 animals flowers sunset raining
DYLAN,EILEEN,ELIETH DANIELA,ERISON,GAEL, JULIAN,ANDMEREDITH
a beautiful, misty, cute, happy forest with a snowy mountain, a pink tree, a water fountain, cheetah print trees, chalta trees. the forest is also spooky and it is the middle of the night with ghosts and purple trees and flying birds
ENGINEERED PROMPT
a beautiful, misty, cute, happy forest with a snowy mountain, a pink tree, a water fountain, cheetah print trees, chalta trees. the forest is also spooky and it is the middle of the night with ghosts and purple trees and flying birds and a cappucino
AITANA,AYLENVALENTINA, JOAO,LEIA,MATIAS,MAYA,
INITIAL PROMPT ATTEMPT
A magical sparkler cloudy forest with waterfall and a panda, yellow trees, orange trees, blue trees, chalet trees, tree, blueberry tree, grass, rainbow trees, prink tree, moss covered rocks, green apple tree, pond, lake, fish pond, giant red silk tree, and big castle for every animal
rainbow trees, prink tree, moss covered rocks, green apple tree, , pond, lake, a pond with lots off fish, giant red silk tree, and big castle for every animal camping tent sparkley
Before we travel even deeper into the forest, there’s something we need to do...
Collect all of the authors’ signatures! And if you are an author, sign your name in your book, too!
Roger Aitana
Arianna
Aylen Valentina
Dylan Eileen
Elieth Daniela
Erison
Jesslyn
Joao
Joshua
Julian Keilyn
GREAT!Now,we’re thereadytofindout answertothis mystery.
LET’SDOIT! theseHelpussearchfor firstanimalsinthe forest...areaofthe
I can move theseedsto otherplaces!
Ihavefurand Ieatfruits.
So elephants eat fruit filled with seeds and then poop out the seeds in another part of the forest --
I can eat the seeds and then poop! --whichcangrow into a new tree!! Thisclueisdefinitely goingtohelpus.
WHOA!Didyouknow thatanimalscanhelp plantsspreadtheir seeds?!COOL!
I’ve got a hunch! Here’s my theory on what is going on with these chalta trees!
By Jesslyn
That’s an interesting theory. Seeds do need water, sunlight, air, and soil to grow. BUT --
-- I asked the scientists at the reserve, and they said all the plants DO have enough water, sunlight, air, and soil to grow.
So that can’t be it...
By Keilyn
Iloveeating elephant apples!
Hello!Iaman alligator.I’m notbehind themystery.
Wow, this mystery is tougher than I thought! Well, let’s keep looking for more clues. What about that section of the forest over there?
Can you find these animals?
Iamhungry. Iwanttoeat abanana.
I want to eat meat!
don’tSAY,WHAT?!!Ustigers carnivores,eatbananas.Weare onlywhichmeanswe eatmeat.
IWell,speakforyourself! loooovebananas!Allthis bananastalkofchaltafruitand HUNGRY!ismakingme
I really need a chalta tree.
think about taking a snack break?
I’d TOTALLY go for that snack break... Also, what do you think about this theory?
By Emily
A snack break?! DUDE, we are trying to solve a SERIOUS mystery!! Don’t let the animals distract you with their talk of food!
Wait... do I smell gaur?
You’re right. I’m sorry I’m getting distracted.
But I can just imagine reaching high up in the chalta tree to get a big chalta fruit and then crunching on its hard shell --
Hey!!! Where are you running off to?! NO! Don’t eat Fluff the Gaur! He’s our friend!!
I’mhappybecauseI playwithFluff,and seekweplayhideand in the savannah.
Iwanta banana.
Phew!! I stopped you just in time. If I can’t eat Fluff, then you can’t stop for a snack break! Ok, deal...
We muchgatheringaresoevidence! searchingLet’skeepfor more!
Iamscary and nice.
inIliketofly thesky!
Ieat chaltaseeds.
Hehehe I think
I
am behind this mystery!! Check out my theory down there...
By Elieth Daniela
OH!
Rose took all the chalta fruit seeds?! Maybe that explains it...
HmmmIdon’t know.Roseispretty silly.I’mnot convinced.
Hey!Ihaveatheory aboutthismystery. Checkitoutonthe nextpage!
By DYLAN
I’dfeelthe same!Iwouldn’t wanttoeatfruit offtheground.
But I know LOTS of animals that don’t mind! In fact, some animals need the fruit to fall to the ground, because they can’t reach it high up in the tree. So this can’t be the reason...
Itis3AM.
OMG!ItIS3AM already...Canthis mysterywaituntil tomorrow?I’m soootired.
WHAT!?No way!Weare soclose.Ican feelit!
ROAR!
Ugh, fine... But the next animal we see BETTER give us a good clue. “Roar!” isn’t helpful, Rod!!
I eat chalta fruit! It is my favorite fruit. It tastes yummy. I eat hard fruit because I have sharp teeth!
Hey,now that’sagreatclue!It seems like all of us elephantslovechalta fruit. What could that mean....
whatHere’smytheoryon ishappeningto thechaltatrees!Ithink I’minvolvedinthe mystery!
By Meredith
I am going in the pond! yay!
Myturn!Here’s happenedwhatIthinktothechaltatrees:
By Maya
I am sneaky and hiding the seeds. I love to climb trees.
Ooooh, could this sneaky red panda be the culprit???
Some animals bury the seeds in the ground to hide them for later! This could be it!!
Mwuahaha!!YES,I MYSTERY!AMBEHINDTHIS Lookat mysneakymethods below...
By Aitana
this can’t be the answer.
Why not???
Because animals that bury and hide seeds sometimes forget about them! And this actually HELPS plants to grow and spread their seeds.
Ilikethe rainforest.
thoughtOh,man!Ireally wehadit.
Zzzz...oh, chip chip! I’m definitely NOT behind this mystery. I’m too busy sleeping!
By leia
Nissela is right, though! She can’t eat chalta tree fruit because it is REALLY hard!
In fact, it seems like elephants are one of the only animals that can reach the fruit AND are strong enough to bite through its shell!!
I eat poopoo.
Read my theory on this mystery!
By Nicolas
Well, if the crocodiles are scaring all the elephants and eating their poop, then maybe that’s why no new chalta trees are growing... They eat poop?!
I like to take out animals who want to eat chalta tree fruit. Oh,
that’s evil!!
doesitsay?! arrived!OMG!Lookwhatjust It’saletterfrom thescientistsattheBengal TigerReserve!
It’s the solution to the mystery! Using all of the evidence and clues that we found, they figured it out!!
WITH THE CHALTA TREE MYSTERY
In 1995, the people who worked at the Bengal Tiger Reserve built a long fence.
They didn’t think that it would cause any harm.
20 years later in 2015, scientists realized that no new chalta trees were growing on the reserve.
They realized that elephants are the ones who spread chalta tree seeds.
eatElephants,likeme,
makethechaltafruitand poopallaround theforestthatarefull oftheseeds.
Theseedsinthepoopgrow intonewchaltatrees.
Butsincetherewas reserve,afencearoundthe couldn’ttheelephants getin!
So that means that the animal behind the chalta tree mystery is......
A A HUMAN! HUMAN!
The End
A GIANT thank you to the teachers, students and families, and the GIANT team members who made this publication possible.
Book Concept & Planning
Azadeh Jamalian, PhD
Janet Bloom
Maru Segovia
Rama Deshpande
Maya Hood-Wilson
Rebecca Schifilliti
Book Design & Development
GIANT Kid Collaborators
Azadeh Jamalian, PhD
Rama Deshpande
Rebecca Schifilliti
Adrian, Emily, Iker, Jayden, Melanie, Roger, Aitana, Arianna, Aylen Valentina, Dylan, Eileen, Elieth Daniela, Erison, Jesslyn, Joao, Joshua, Julian, Keilyn, Leia, Manuel, Matias, Maya, Meredith, Nicolas, Nicole, Sol, and Gael
More GIANT thanks to the Robin Hood Foundation, Tech + Learning Fund for their generous support of this project.
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